MAURICE'S VIEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 October 1918, Page 5

MAURICE'S VIEWS.

I MAINTAIN INTENSITY OF EFFORTS. London, Oct. 0. General Maurice, writing in Lloyd's News on whether the war will be over this year, says that Germany since July 15 has lost not less of whom 250,000 have been taken prisoner. The part taken by the British army in this fighting is the most glorious in its history. Though in strength considerably less than half the total Allied force on the west front, the British have reconquered more than half the ground won and taken half the prisoners captured.

Germany has probably still 4,000,000 men on the west front. They are a proud people, who for more than a generation have been regarded as the world's first military power, and it is not reasonable to expect that they will surrender until convinced that the struggle is utterly hopeless. Therefore, on military grounds there is no justification for the hope that we shall be able to compel the Central Powers to surrender this rear.

General Maurice admits that he was surprised by what happened in Bulgaria, and may be surprised again by what may happen in Germany; but the only way to end the horrors of this war quickly ia to maintain the intensity of the efforts and to increase our power to the extreme limit. When a boxer finds his opponent is groggy he goes in to win. That is everyone's plain duty to-day. Aus. X.Z. Cable Assoc.